Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the week when Franklin Roosevelt must deliver his message on the state of the Union. The President toiled and moiled over its phraseology. He kept his visitors list to a minimum, his desk clear of everything save business that could not wait...
...offers," said Martin in his customary Missouri drawl, "complete protection with a minimum of weight and bulk...
Approved by a Los Angeles court was a seven-year cinecontract to pay a weekly minimum of $150, a maximum of $1,250, to Hollywood Newcomer Mimi Chandler, 16-year-old daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy...
...toughest obstacle to school consolidation in Illinois is its archaic patchwork of 11.957 autonomous boards of education (there is no state board), which are a minor but profitable branch of politics. Today their schools, even though they have only three pupils, get state aid based on a minimum of 18. But beginning next July no more state funds will be given to schools enrolling fewer than seven students. This, as well as the teacher shortage, should speed the trend toward consolidation...
...general peace conference, but a period in which war revenge and hatred could cool off and lasting solutions be worked out separately by commissions representing the dominant nations. The significant Hoover contribution was that he not only seconded the cooling off period but proposed interim action. He named six minimum conditions to a conditional peace: total disarmament of the enemy, designation of provisional boundaries, machinery for repatriation of prisoners and civilians, removal of economic blockades, immediate famine relief and provisional restoration of commercial treaties...